A Coming Hell on Earth?| Vox Populi
"Trump is threatening to go to war with an American city," notes Gov. Pritzer "This is not normal."| Vox Populi
After years reporting from post-authoritarian states, I now see the same patterns in my own backyard—where justice has collapsed, truth is suppressed, and power no longer answers to the people.| Vox Populi
They feared the olive trees — the trees that know, more than anyone, who the true owners of this land are.| Vox Populi
José María Tojeira, S.J., is remembered as a person of profound faith, courage, and conviction, someone who devoted his life to championing human rights, justice, and the dignity of the poor and oppressed. The post ‘Justice, not vengeance’: The life and ministry of Jesuit José María Tojeira appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Pope Leo told reporters gathered outside the Villa Barberini in Castel Gandolfo that he had just tried to phone Holy Family Parish in Gaza City. "I just tried to call the pastor, but I have no news," the pope said. The post ‘We need to pray a lot,’ Pope Leo says after Israeli attack in Qatar appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Today’s statement from Jason Pearlman, the spokesperson for the Israeli president, said Mr. Herzog is coming “for a one day visit to the Vatican at the invitation of the Pope.” The post Israeli president Herzog to visit Pope Leo at Vatican appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
I can't will myself into a spiritual experience, into a sense of solidarity or meaning or nobility or deep and somber union with God and man. I can will myself into doing regular daily things and recording them and seeing what comes of it all. The post Fasting for peace in Gaza: What Pope Leo’s call really means appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
The pope called for “humanitarian law to be fully respected—especially the obligation to protect civilians and the prohibitions against collective punishment, the indiscriminate use of force, and the forced displacement of populations.” The post Pope Leo warns against the ‘forced displacement of populations’ in Gaza appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
The priests and nuns who are caring for those living in the Orthodox and Catholic compounds in Gaza City will remain despite Israel’s orders to evacuate, the Greek Orthodox and Latin patriarchs of Jerusalem said in a statement issued today, Tuesday, Aug. 26. The post Priests and nuns in Gaza City defy Israel’s evacuation orders and vow to stay: ‘We have nowhere else to go.’ appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Caritas Internationalis, one of the largest humanitarian organizations in the world, has denounced “the siege of Gaza” by Israel, which, the group said, “has become a machinery of annihilation, sustained by impunity and the silence, or complicity, of powerful nations.” The post World’s largest Catholic aid group calls for end of ‘man-made famine and assault’ in Gaza appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
On June 17, 2025, Holy Family Parish, a Catholic Church in Gaza, was struck by an Israeli shell that killed three people and injured several others. This church, where over 600 people—including Palestinian Christians, Muslims, young children, and disabled individuals—continue to shelter in amidst death and destruction, is the same church that Pope Francis called […] The post How the logic of collateral damage demands human sacrifice appeared first on U.S. Catholic.| U.S. Catholic
An appalling decision by federal judge Trevor McFadden was filed on August 4. The idea that Jews are a “race” makes one’s skin crawl.| New Politics
The underlying logic and key characteristics of the 12-day Israel-Iran war. The post The Gog and Magog Complex: On Iran/Israel Endless War appeared first on New Politics.| New Politics
Eighty years ago this week, on August 6 and August 9, United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, the first on Hiroshima and the second on Nagasaki, killing 200,000 people. The post 80 Years in the Shadow of the Bomb appeared first on New Politics.| New Politics
The bombs fell in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City around 2 a.m. on July 14, killing more than two dozen people. The IDF hasn't answered why it bombed the Arafat home or barred rescue workers.| New Politics
More than offering an escape, fantasy worlds can also show what courage looks like when the odds are stacked against you.| Vox Populi
If Mark Twain were alive today, he would certainly have written a novel about Donald Trump. After all, his 1873 novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, distinctly caught a nineteenth-century versio…| Vox Populi
The Trump administration revives institutionalized torture.| Vox Populi
you cannot separate the job from the house from the rent from the earth from the food from the healthcare from the water from the transit from the war from the schools from the prisons from the war…| Vox Populi
The latest in our new video series explores America’s dilemma over the war between Israel and Iran.| Modern Age
“It was a massacre,” said one witness, adding that Israeli troops continued firing on people as they fled.| Vox Populi
I tell my wife about the young woman who covered herself in leaves under a tree, did not move, and barely breathed for hours. I tell her about the girl who escaped.| Vox Populi
Let us be like my friend Rick’s grandma, who Rick remembers trotting alongside the car as his dad drove him and his brother down the long driveway from her house, tapping on a window until one of t…| Vox Populi
The Good and the Bad in Media Coverage Now| Vox Populi
President Gustavo Petro authorized a “socio-judicial conversation” with the EGC, Colombia’s largest paramilitary organization. According to a presidential decree, this conversation seeks to convince the EGC’s top commanders of the…| Colombia News | Colombia Reports
The lead negotiator of Colombia’s government has confirmed that peace talks with a dissident faction of guerrilla group EMC will continue on Tuesday. EMC founder “Ivan Mordisco” and the majority…| Colombia News | Colombia Reports
Historically, the movement of people has always spread disease. We are taught as children about the Black Death that killed a one third of Europe’s population. Those initial introductions to the de…| Reflections on War & Society
A spat at the UN Security Council shows the contrast between two very different approaches to war and to peace [Originally published on Alex Krainer’s Substack] On 26 October 2023 at the…| The Naked Hedgie
UK’s leading establishment figures are gung-ho promoting World War III. What’s behind the agenda? Last October I published an article titled “Britain’s secret diplomacy and …| The Naked Hedgie
In his address to the National Press Club yesterday (14 March), Sy Hersh shared a few important insights. Yesterday evening, Seymour Hersh addressed the National Press Club in New York. The event w…| The Naked Hedgie